Nehemiah 7:4-6

Revised Geneva Translation

⁴ Now, the city was large and great. But there were few people in it, and the houses were not built.

⁵ And my God put into my heart to gather the princes and the rulers and the people, to count their genealogies. And I found a book of the genealogy of those who had come up at the beginning. And in it I found:

⁶ “These are the sons of the province who came up from the captivity that was carried away (whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, had carried away). And they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each one to his city,